Popular Religiosity and Festivals: Obando's Fertility Rites Festival
Devotees dancing the pandanggo The celebration of Fiesta is a tradition that has deeply penetrated the veins of every Christianized Filipinos of whatever ethnic group. The commemoration of the Santo Patron’s feast day is a celebration of the best that the town has to offer in thanksgiving for the many blessings that had been bestowed to the people and the devotees in the previous year through the intercession of the town’s patron saint and to pray for the same abundance and blessing for the coming year. The highlight of the celebrations would be the Misa Concelebrada to be presided usually, by the Local Ordinary with priests from other parishes in the diocese concelebrating, and a grand procession in the afternoon participated in by the townsfolk and devotees coming from different places to pay homage and reverence to the Santo Patron. The Three Patron Saints of Obando Fiesta in the Town of Obando But in the town of Obando, Bulacan, the celebration of the fiesta has been made ...